From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Kenny,   
      
   > I use "choice.exe", but I can't seem to get that to work under XP.   
      
   Its always a good idea to specify what "can't seem to get that to work"   
   means to you.   Your house blows up ?  Your cat/dog starts to attack you ?   
   Your 'puter crashes and reboots ?   A "wrong OS version" response ?   
   Anything else ?  (and as you seem to have already used it under Win7 I'm   
   skipping the "maybe you misuderstood how its supposed to work?" possibility)   
      
   > I have a vague memory of there being something like this - maybe   
   > going back all the way to DOS days - but I can't remember what it   
   > was called now.   
      
   It was called the same - for the versions that included it.  But there have   
   been multiple non-MS versions of the same around.  Though mostly without the   
   time-out feature.   
      
   Maybe you can use this (SET /P) :   
      
   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/566944/windows-batch-choice-   
   ommand-for-windows-xp-2003   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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